For the past three years, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been implementing harsh zero-COVID measures, which have created humanitarian disasters across the country and severely damaged the national economy.
Starting in November this year, the CCP suddenly abandoned its tough stance on COVID-19, halted mandatory mass PCR testing, and allowed people with mild symptoms to quarantine at home instead of dragging them to central makeshift isolation facilities.
Yuan Hongbing, a Chinese law scholar based in Australia, gives the inside story behind the abrupt relaxation of pandemic rules in China.
Li Qiang Proposed the Change to Xi Jinping
One of Xi’s close confidants suggested the relaxation of zero-COVID measures to Xi Jinping, according to Yuan in an interview with the Chinese language edition of The Epoch Times on Dec. 13, citing from his source in China….